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Volume 58 | Summer 2026

Special Issue: Risk, Failure, and the Teaching of Writing

Introduction to the Special Issue: Gladly Beyond: The Domain of Risk and Failure
Justin Mando and Alexis Teagarden

Articles

Faculty Perceptions of Risk-Taking and Connections to Student Writing Expectations
Meghan Hancock

Re-Imagining Relationships: A Heuristic for Disrupting Vernaculars of Risk and Failure
Kellie Sharp-Hoskins and Kerry Banazek

A Non-Defense of Failure: A Pedagogy of Failure in situ
Sam Phillips and Rise Applegarth

“Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better”: Moving Beyond the Success-Failure Binary Through Community Writing in the Professional Writing Classroom
Ania Payne

The Problem with Failure in First-Year Composition
Cynthia Miecznikowski

Directional Reflection: A 360-Degree Framework for Faculty Failure and Intellectual Risk
Kara Taczak

Focus on Graduate Students

Inclusive Practices Pedagogy and Intellectual Risk-Taking: Supporting Graduate Writers Through Vulnerability
A. Nicole Pfannenstiel and Leonora Foels

From Risk/Failure to Plural Productivities: A Justice-Centered Framework for Graduate Writing across Contexts
Chimee Adịọha, Soyeon Lee, Hem Lal Pandey, María Perez-Piza, and David Tver

The “Ideal” Job to Failure Pipeline: An Analysis of Technical and Professional Communication Job-Seeking Resources
Morgan Banville, Emily Gresbrink, Rachael Jordan, and Elena Kalodner-Martin

Program Profiles

Doing It Ourselves: Normalizing Failure and Risk Through (Self-)Publishing at Rowan University
Jason Luther, Casey Wang, Kelli Hughes, Matt Berrian, and Gianna Forgen

A Phenomenology of Risk and Failure in Community-Based Learning Courses
Jessica Lauer and Janine Tobeck

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